binutils

gcc

Fedora 17 includes version 4.7.0 of gcc, gcc-c++, gcc-gfortran, gcc-objc, and gcc-gnat. The update includes numerous changes to the gcc series of compilers, not only C and C++, but also to Ada and Fortran. For complete details, refer to the GCC 4.7 Release Series Changes at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html.

Some highlights:

Several obsoleted architectures including IRIX 6.5, MIPS OpenBSD, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX 5.1 and a number of legacy ARM platforms

Support for OpenMP 3.1 on C, C++ and Fortran

More support for the C11 and C++11 standards updates

New debug flexibility for Ada

A number of performance improvements in Fortran

Many optimizer enhancements

New platforms:

ARM Cortex A7

AVR XMEGA

Texas Instruments C6X

National Semiconductor's CR16

Tilera TILE-Gx and TILEPro families

In addition, there are platform-specific improvements in ARM, AVR, IA-32/x86-64, MIPS, PowerPC/PowerPC64, SH and SPARC.

subversion

The version control system subversion has been updated from 1.6.17 to 1.7.3. Numerous changes include better use of HTTP, a new remote dumpfile tool, and improved console output, in addition to numerous minor changes. The reader is encouraged to visit http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html for more information on these improvements.

asa

bugzilla

bugzilla 4.0.4 fixes a number of security issues with previous versions. In addition, the new release permits system administrators to disable autocomplete and corrects a number of minor bugs. Refer to http://www.bugzilla.org/ for details.